32 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTCLNAT 18 Sep \ on: The dark side of Cuba - Blackouts 🌑 alter_native
Among the challenges for Bitcoin adoption and education here are power outages. We've been in the middle of a P2P and the counterparty hasn't been able to finish the operation because the power went out and the available user ran out of battery or sometimes, mobile data towers stop working. Imagine you want to set up a node.
Hardware, power and connection. What do you do?
Don't tell me about the solar panel. Forget it here.
would something like the Machankura system work for this? where people use old dumb phones and SMS menus for bitcoin payments and stuff?
(this article is where i fist heard about it i believe)
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I thank you for that information. It really shows that when you want you can, there is a platform here that uses USSD for digital payments, but it belongs to the telecommunications monopoly here, so implementing the use of this technology to pay with SATs is difficult, if not impossible.
The other thing is how Nagako is translating for her people. That shows the commitment.
I have no justification for not educating and adopting Bitcoin
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